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'...David Hicks, the interior designer who in the 1960s won world fame for his use of vibrant, clashing colours, his trademark geometric prints and his panache in combining both with antique and modern furniture. Deeply revered in the design world, the elder Hicks was known to the general public for his dashing good looks, his genius for self-publicity and his marriage to Lady Pamela Mountbatten, daughter of Lord Mountbatten - the last Viceroy of India and the adviser and favourite uncle of the Prince of Wales. A hard act to follow? It would seem not. Ashley Hicks has celebrated his father in David Hicks: A Life of Design (Rizzoli) and these days re-interprets the 1960s geometric patterns, which are the height of fashion once again...' --Stella (supp. to the Sunday Telegraph), May 2011
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David Hicks is acknowledged as one of the most important interior designers of the late twentieth century, in the company of Albert Hadley and Billy Baldwin. Known for his bold use of color, eclecticism, and geometric designs in carpets and textiles, Hicks turned English decorating on its head in the ’50s and ’60s. His trademark use of electrifying color combinations, and mixing antiques, modern furniture, and abstract paintings became the "in style" for the chic of the day, including Vidal Sassoon and Helena Rubinstein. By the ’70s, David Hicks was a brand; his company was making wallpaper, fabrics, and linens and had outposts in eight countries, including the U.S. where he worked with the young Mark Hampton, and where his wallpaper was used in the White House. "My greatest contribution as an interior designer has been to show people how to use bold color mixtures, how to use patterned carpets, how to light rooms, and how to mix old with new,’’ he stated in his 1968 work, David Hicks on Living—with Taste, the last authoritative book on his work. Written by his son Ashley Hicks, who has unprecedented access to Hicks’s archives, personal photos, journals, and scrapbooks, this is a vibrantly illustrated celebration of a half century of stunning interiors.
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biographical
29 Oct 2009
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This book is more about Hick's life than about his work or style. I am glad I bought it, but expected more: better glossier pictures, bigger pictures instead of so many small ones....I guess it's a book a son would write about the father he admires, but as a reader, I am not interested in his marriage, his private life, etc. For that I could buy a biography. I expected more about his work, better pictures, less about his life.
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david hicks a life of design
13 Nov 2009
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many thanks to his wonderful son for writing this book. so much information. just about the best book in a long time
Hicks is a genius!
30 Mar 2012
Format:Hardcover
Good photographs and a good balance of writting/illustrations. The Hicks bible. Amazing how his interiors still look modern. A visionary whose work is wonderful to see. Amazing use of colour and beautiful examples of "tablescapes" from the man who invented the word. Many ideas which may be copied, such as the black trimming on an orange hallway (yes, it sounds daring, but it looks great!) and the "fake" canopied beds made by putting curtain railings on the ceiling. If you must buy one decoration book, do buy this one, you will not be dissappointed.
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